From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 00:52:48 -0400
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Subject: Re: file append problem
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> > Perhaps there's a third. In dup2 make sure the append flags are in sync?

They could also be synced before _flsbuf and friends call _write. But I think 
Eli has the simpler solution (#4?):

> the problem is > that we have two flags, where we should have had one.

I also wonder if the _remove_on_close member in FILE could be eliminated too 
since that functionality duplicates the O_TEMPORARY flag.

Out,
Mark